Hilton at the Ageas Bowl, the stunning 171-bedroom hotel, located at the home of Hampshire Cricket, boasts a luxury eforea spa, BEEFY’S fine dining restaurant, Lakeview Sports Bar, a gym and extensive meeting and event space as well as the venue's 18-hole golf course, Boundary Lakes.

With all this to keep you busy and a whole host of entertainment right on your doorstep, we're confident you won't be able to stay for long enough.

The Ageas Bowl's, including Hilton at the Ageas Bowl, broad range of stylish and luxurious suites, cutting edge audio-visual capabilities and bespoke catering provision, deem the picture-perfect venue the ideal location for a vast array of meetings, weddings and events.

Whether it’s an intimate meeting for ten in our boardroom, a lavish wedding ceremony for 200 in our Ageas Media Centre or an exhibition in our expansive Ageas Ballroom, you can be sure that whatever your requirements, we’ll have them covered.

The Ageas Bowl and Hilton at the Ageas Bowl host a vast array of events and showpiece occasions throughout the year.

2017 saw Rock Legend Bryan Adams and the world's number one girl band, Little Mix, perform at the Ageas Bowl, not forgetting three thrilling England Internationals; Eoin Morgan's white-ball side faced South Africa twice and the Windies last summer.

The Ageas Bowl's spectacular Fireworks Party returned in November and 2018 will see the colossal England v India Test Match arrive!

Hampshire Cricket in the Community use the power of sport, the world-class facilities at the Ageas Bowl and the Hampshire Cricket squad to inspire people to play cricket, engage in education and live well.

Explore our sporting and educational provision, community events, local partnerships as well as ways to support us.

The Ageas Bowl is home to Hampshire Cricket, the new Hilton at the Ageas Bowl and hosts England Internationals, but the venue’s offering doesn’t end there.

The iconic ground is also home to an elite sports medicine centre, the Hampshire Wellbeing Centre, the rapidly expanding amateur boxing club, Poseidon, the Hedge End Running Club as well as the newly-opened Sanjha Punjabi Cuisine Takeaway Unit.

New for 2018, Choi Kwang Do martial arts classes are also held at the Ageas Bowl, whilst 2016 also saw the venue's Elite International Sports Academy (EISA) open its college programme for those aged 16-18.

Your Game. Your Voice. Your Vote.

A passionate audience over a hundred strong discussed five club proposals to revitalise the recreational game in Hampshire at a packed Ageas Bowl last week.

Tony Oxley, Clubs and Leagues Working Party chair, encouraged clubs and players to go back to their members and consult ahead of the Hampshire Cricket League AGM on 15th February.

Bashley, Brockenhurst, Lock's Heath, Sway and Verwood are among the clubs polling their members on a league restructure, earlier starts, and in regional leagues a player loans trial, wides and fewer overs.

It's now over to club players and volunteers to ensure voting at the league AGM on the 15th February reflects their views.
Your Game. Your Voice. Your Vote.

Tony Oxley, Clubs and Leagues Working Party Chair

The number of Hampshire teams starting the season continues to fall from 347 (in 2014) to 306.

428 games (8%) have been forfeited by clubs unable to fulfil games since the start of the 2016 season, and 41 teams have folded meaning 900 fewer chances per week for players to play.

Nothing is more frustrating after numerous calls and messages not to mention preparing pitches and teas, than hearing that your opponents can't raise a team.

"We support the league's proposals but clubs and players are saying that they want more," Oxley added.

The research which prompted clubs to make their proposals would produce the same results 19 times out of 20 to within a 3% margin of error according to Survey Monkey's response rate calculator.

The findings also mirror 110,000 National Cricket Playing Survey responses since 2013 which include 3,500 from Hampshire players.

Cricket doesn’t have the luxury of time, change isn’t to be feared. It’s how society has got to where we are today which includes learning from failure - trial and error. Try things, the intentions are all for the good of the game.